The Mill River Park Collaborative on Tuesday announced that the downtown park will host a session of Spartan racing, a form of obstacle course racing, on Saturday, April 11th at 9 a.m. The event marks the debut of Spartan racing in Fairfield County. Obstacle racing is an increasingly popular sport and business that includes races […]
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HARMAN, the audio and infotainment company headquartered in Stamford, has agreed to donate more than $50,000 in audio equipment and installation to the Stamford Family YMCA. According to a press release, the company is set to put in new sound systems throughout the Y facility over the next several months. “Our Y is truly lucky […]
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As part of an effort to evaluate a developer’s plan to replace and relocate the city’s former working boatyard in the South End, members of the city’s land use boards and the Harbor Management Commission on Monday night agreed on a “scope of work” or set of criteria for a consultant that has been hired […]
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Today’s front page includes a story about the Norwalk street artist 5ivefingaz, who has been leaving paintings across the downtown over the last month. Last week, I spoke with the artist last week. Like most street artists, he elects to remain anonymous, but he was generous with giving me the background of how he started […]
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The city’s youngest murder defendant in living memory is scheduled to make his second appearance at state Superior Court in Stamford Tuesday morning where his attorney is expected to ask a judge to get his client a mental health competency exam. At his appearance Marquest Hall, 15, will be flanked by his mother and Stamford […]
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Police say that landscapers working in a back yard of an Shippan Point mansion found a dead body washed up on the beach early Monday afternoon. Lt. Diedrich Hohn said police have identified the body of the man in his early 20s and are working to notify the man’s next of kin. Hohn said that […]
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Update 9:45 a.m. The fire as put out, but the roof of the house was still smoldering about an hour after the blaze was called in by a passerby who saw smoke coming from the house. About 35 firefighters responded to the fire, and about eight engines. Deputy fire chief John Pritchard said about a […]
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